Horrible idea. You can upconvert, but it will do no good, except create a larger file with the same audio quality. When you convert to a lossy format (.mp3 for instance) you are removing some information from the file for the sake of size preservation. Once lost that information can never be brought back, not unless you have the original media on hand, but then you'd just be reripping and not transcoding.

BTW... is it wrong that upon reading this topic I instantly thought of the Animaniacs and considered replying in that manner?....

Know what? I shall anyway...

Good Idea: Taking a CD and ripping it into the FLAC format. [insert scene of a happy head-fier]

Bad Idea: Taking a 192kbps mp3 and transcoding it into FLAC format [insert scene of a head-fier's head being blown up from poor audio quality] (no smiley to depict this, sorry)

37.2 MB (39,021,032 bytes) FLAC Normalized
9.38 MB (9,838,222 bytes) Mp3 before a FLAC was made I read the bic2101 and thought I would give it a try. Sounds better now normalized but I'm a purest and I think this is a waist of time. Leave Mp3s as they are.

Correction....................I can not tell the difference in the Mp3 prenormalized and the FLAC normalized. The two files sound the same.

It's possible and harmless but will not give you any benefit. The only reason to do this would be in the distant future, when the last iPod standing is about to sunset the MP3 format, FLAC still survives (maybe) and you want to keep jamming to your favorite old MP3s. As far as which format will last longer, my money would be on MP3, as it's still the king lossy format while FLAC is just one of a dozen equivalent lossless ones.

Horrible idea. You can upconvert, but it will do no good, except create a larger file with the same audio quality. When you convert to a lossy format (.mp3 for instance) you are removing some information from the file for the sake of size preservation. Once lost that information can never be brought back, not unless you have the original media on hand, but then you'd just be reripping and not transcoding.

BTW... is it wrong that upon reading this topic I instantly thought of the Animaniacs and considered replying in that manner?....

Know what? I shall anyway...

Good Idea: Taking a CD and ripping it into the FLAC format. [insert scene of a happy head-fier]

Bad Idea: Taking a 192kbps mp3 and transcoding it into FLAC format [insert scene of a head-fier's head being blown up from poor audio quality] (no smiley to depict this, sorry)

Converting lossy to lossless is a HORRENDOUS idea, and should never be done for it serves no purpose, other than increasing the world's quota of bad FLACs.